[mary-users] Mary and Flex, commit input w/o Socket shutdown

[Marc Schroeder]

Hello Rene,

have you considered using the HTTP server which is the default 
configuration with MARY 4.0 beta? I guess that it is easier from Flex to 
establish an http connection than to juggle with two socket connections...

Regards,
Marc

René Bühling schrieb:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am trying to use the Mary TTS with an Adobe Air/Flex application and I 
> ran into a problem I have no more solution approaches for. Maybe anyone 
> here has an idea?
> 
> I wrote a Flex/ActionScript 3 application and connected to Mary 
> successfully through the default flash.net.Socket class. I works fine to 
> the point where I want to have a sentence verbalized: I send the text 
> "Hello World \n" via the data socket, but nothing happens. I found out, 
> that Mary starts execution when I close my data socket, not earlier. 
> This leads to the situation that the result can not be sent back, 
> because the socket is closed of course.
> 
> It seems that the flash.net.Socket does not have any pendant to the 
> shutdown method that exists in most other languages' Socket 
> implementations. Therefore I can not explicitly stop the writing 
> channel. According to Adobe's documentation I guess that flush() is 
> meant to do the job, but I think this is not the same as shutdown and it 
> also does not work here.
> 
> Is there any possibility to signal Mary that the submitted data is 
> complete other than shutdown-ing the write socket?
> Or does anybody have experience connecting Mary to Flash?
> 
> Thanks and kind regards,
> René
> 

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